I'm talking about it's recent usage against ppo like @HeteroGamerVet & not the class of outwardly ironic weirdtwitter goons who have really dumb ardent faiths in shit like "equality" underneath their persona
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"Irony is free from this. It knows it has the power to start all over again if it so pleases; anything that happened before is not binding, and just as irony in infinite freedom enjoys its critical gratification in the theoretical realm, so it enjoys in the realm of practice a
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similar divine freedom that knows no bonds, no chains, but plays with abandon and unrestraint, gambols like a leviathan in the sea. Irony is indeed free, free from the sorrows of actuality, but also free from its joys, free from its blessing, for inasmuch as it has nothing
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higher than itself, it can receive no blessing, since it is always the lesser that is blessed by the greater. This is the freedom that irony craves.
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Therefore it watches over itself and fears nothing more than that some impression or other might overwhelm it, because not until one is free in that way does one live poetically, and, as is well known, irony's great requirement was to live poeti- cally." -Kierkegaard
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Very good quote, I think irony is an ephemeral tactic, but one that should be discarded as it has the ability to corrode any higher metaphysical truth in its wake.
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"In order for thought,subjectivity, to acquire fullness and truth, it must let itself be born; it must immerse itself in the deeps of substantial life, let itself hide there as the congregation is hidden in Christ; half fearfully and half sympathetically,
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half shrinking back and half yielding, it must let the waves of the substantial sea close over it, just as in the moment of inspiration the subject almost dis- appears from himself, abandons himself to that which inspires him, and yet feels a slight shudder,
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for it is a matter of life and death. But this takes courage, and yet it is necessary, since everyone who wants to save his soul must lose it." Almost all of Concept of Irony is quotable so I should just link it (https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/kierkegaard%2FPrinceton%20University%20Press%20Readings%2F9780691020723_Concept_of_Irony_Hong_selections.pdf … (above from p274)
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